the day lincoln was shot Author:jim biship The field of American letters is rich in Lincoln material; scores of fine books have been written about the sixteenth President of the United States and his times. But no one - until now- has written the complete reoord of the dramatic events which occurred on the day Mr. Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre. The chapters in THE DAY LINCOLN WAS ... more »SHOT start with one for 7 am, April 14, 1865 and close with one for 7 am, April 15, 1865. The book opens with the President emerging from his bedroom, worried about a dream in which he saw himself dead, and it closes with the Surgeon General placing two silver dollars on the President's eyelids. Illustrated with 18 rare photographs.« less